We welcome distinguished diplomat, former broadcaster, and public servant, Mary Jeannie May Simon OC OQ (Inuktitut: Ningiukudluk), Canada’s 30th Governor General, who will be sworn in on July 26, 2021.

The myth of multiculturalism in a global world. Where do people from other countries fit into the mosaic of Canada that is continually expanding?

A deadly explosion along Beirut’s harbour has killed more than 100 and injured thousands more. Rescue crews and citizens alike are frantically working to find survivors amid the rubble.

Canadian politics usually pale in comparison to our cousins to the south, but there are a couple of major ethics issues happening in Ottawa that have caught fire – yet again – specifically the WE Charity scandal.

David Lynn left the courthouse to applause from supporters. Standing on a step he told the cheering crowd, “I’m here because of an unjust arrest for exercising my freedom of speech.”

As our country continues to be enveloped in a serious opioid crisis, members of a governmental body gathered yesterday in Toronto to discuss possible solutions.

What has transpired in their country is nothing short of a miracle, and an answer to millions of peoples’ prayers around the world for Africa’s newest country – South Sudan.

Viola Desmond is remembered appropriately on this day – as a woman who stood against forces much greater than herself but persisted; and won.

According to the UN Refugee Agency, (UNHCR), more than 65 million people have been removed, or have had to flee their own homes, “Nearly one person is forcibly displaced every two seconds as a result of conflict or persecution in their countries.”

A packed gymnasium, full of students and some media was the setting for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Town Hall meeting at McMaster University in Hamilton.

Yet another tide of asylum-seekers flows into Canada – this time at the Quebec border where its estimated about, “1,100 to 2,500 Haitians have arrived in Quebec in the month of July alone.”